{"id":173584,"date":"2021-10-07T00:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=173584"},"modified":"2021-10-07T00:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:40:02","slug":"pak-army-transfers-isi-chief-lt-gen-hameed-as-peshawar-corps-commander-in-surprise-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/pak-army-transfers-isi-chief-lt-gen-hameed-as-peshawar-corps-commander-in-surprise-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak Army transfers ISI chief Lt. Gen. Hameed as Peshawar Corps Commander in surprise reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) In a surprise move, Pakistan Army on Wednesday transferred the powerful spy agency ISI&#8217;s chief Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed and appointed him as Peshawar Corps Commander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, his replacement on the key post of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief was not immediately announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hameed was appointed as head of the spy agency on June 16, 2019, in a military shake-up. He had previously served in the ISI as the head of internal security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is considered as close to Army chief General Qamar Bajwa and was appointed as ISI head at a crucial time due to several external and internal security challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He oversaw the crucial changes in Afghanistan where the Taliban took control in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September, he visited Kabul and told the media in a brief chat that &#8220;everything will be ok&#8221; in Afghanistan, when there were rumours about differences among Taliban ranks due to delay in the announcement of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Army, in an official statement, also announced two more senior-level postings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt Gen Mohammad Amir was posted as Gujranwala corps commander, while Lt Gen Asim Munir was appointed as the Quarter Master General (QMG) of the Army, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) In a surprise move, Pakistan Army on Wednesday transferred the powerful spy agency ISI&#8217;s chief Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed and appointed him as Peshawar Corps Commander. However, his replacement on the key post of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief was not immediately announced. Hameed was appointed as head of the spy agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}